From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The People Versus
The People Versus
The People Versus if they wanted, earn more cash by answering more ques-
tions than the quota required, again for £5,000 a piece.
Format Game Show To help, each player was shown all five questions at the
Created by David Briggs start. Each player was also given three ’flips’. If a player
Steve Knight wanted to use a flip, they could substitute any of the five
Mike Whitehill given questions for another one. Also, if they had the
Starring Kirsty Young (2000) cash, they could elect to ’buy’ answers to questions at
Kaye Adams (2001 - 2002) £10,000 a time.
Finishing Round 5 meant the contestant would begin
Composer(s) Keith Strachan
again at Round 1. There was no limit on the amount
Country of origin United Kingdom of money someone could win which theoretically meant
someone could win more than a million pounds, the top
No. of series 2
prize of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, although no contes-
No. of episodes 115 tant ever won anywhere near this amount of money.
Production If a person got their question wrong, they lost all
money in that round and their seat in the game went to
Producer(s) Celador the person who set the question.
Running time 30mins (inc. comms)
Kaye Adams version
Broadcast
Studio contestants were asked general knowledge ques-
Original channel ITV tions set by the public. The rounds were as follows:
Picture format 16:9 • Round one: one question worth £100, and four passes
• Round two: two questions worth £250, and three
Original run 15 August 2000 – 18 June 2002 passes
• Round three: three questions worth £500, and two
The People Versus is a television game show which aired passes
on ITV from 2000 to 2002 in the United Kingdom. Kirsty • Round four: four questions worth £1,000, and one
Young hosted the program for the primetime series and pass
Kaye Adams hosted the program for the daytime series. • Round five: five questions worth £3,000, and no
The show was radical in terms of the two changes of ver- passes
sions. The second version was a lot quicker than the first. The contestant had a four minute time limit to finish the
The Kirsty Young version was criticised as being slow. rounds. Running out of time meant they lost.
The People Versus was made by Celador, the same mak- If the contestant was stuck on a question, he or she
ers as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. While the two se- could pass, but if they cannot pass any more, they must
ries had very different formulas, the central format was use a ’Flip’. A contestant had three flips at their disposal.
that the questions were sent in by the viewers. These substituted the question for an alternative one on
their specialist subject.
Formats Finishing Round 5 meant that the contestant would
bank the £3,000 and have the chance to restart from
Kirsty Young version Round 1 again with their Flips restored. As in the first se-
ries there is an unlimited amount of money to be won.
For every question the contestants got correct they won
The highest sum of money won on the daytime version
£5,000. The rules were: In each round the players were
was £13,000 by Indrani Hettiaratchi.
shown five questions from one of their specialist sub-
If a contestant answered a question incorrectly, then
jects. In Round One, each contestant had to attempt and
they were knocked out of the game. The person who set
answer correctly one of those five questions - "one of
the question won £100. (Later in the series this changed
five to stay alive". In Round Two, on a different subject
to £50 for a Round 1 knockout, with no money being
they had to answer two correctly to stay in, Round Three
awarded for an elimination in a later round.) The Bong
three, Round Four four and finally in Round Five they
Game was then played.
had to answer all five. In each round, the player could,
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The People Versus
Series Start date End date Episodes
1 15 August 2000 4 September 2000 10
2 25 June 2001 18 June 2002 105
The studio contestant had the choice of 3 Bong The values of each round were HK$5,000, HK$10,000,
games. One of these three games didn’t have a bong in HK$20,000, HK$40,000 and HK$100,000 (about £6,451) re-
it all and went all the way to the money he had in play. spectively.
A robotic voice read out increasing amounts of money.
The aim was to stop the voice before the bong sounded. Russia
The contestant had to press a button to stop the voice Called Народ против (Narod Protiv, lit. people against).
and win whatever was shown on the screen. If the con- The show was originally aired on Channel One, then a
testant managed beat the bong, the rest of the money in new series aired on REN TV.
play went to the person who caught the studio contes- The values of each round were 1,000 rubles, 2,500
tant out. If the studio player failed to beat the bong, then rubles, 5,000 rubles, 15,000 rubles and 50,000 rubles
they would win nothing and the member of the public (about £1,029) respectively.
won all of the money in play. The contestant then found
out where the bong would have come in. Serbia
In Serbia The people Versus aired on RTS 1 (between 2002
Transmissions and 2005) as Сам против свих (Sam protiv svih, lit. Alone
vs. all) .
In 2009, B92 and Advantige bought rights and will air
Other international versions it as Narod protiv / Народ против (lit. people against).
The new season began airing on February 19, 2009.
Hong Kong
Broadcasted on ATV, called 各出其謀 (lit. everyone gives
their questions) and hosted by Meg Lam (林建明).
External links
On December 31, 2001, in the last episode of the first • The People Versus at UKGameshows.com
series of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the last contestant • Narod Protiv - Official website of Serbian version of
was invited to play the game, but he failed to finish The People Versus
Round 5 and he lost the Bong Game. • Official website of Hong Kong version (Chinese)
The first regular episode was aired on January 1, 2002
and the last was on March 8, 2002.
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Categories:
• 2000 in British television
• 2000 television series debuts
• 2002 television series endings
• ITV television programmes
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